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Share This Story! Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about Facebook Email Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest Papa Burger: How an iconic A&W statue in upstate New York was found and renovated The museum is doing a full restoration of him, painting him in his original orange and brown colors for a new generation of people to see. Sent! A link has been sent to your friend's email address. Posted! A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Join the Conversation To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs Subscribe Today Log In Subscribed, but don't have a login? Activate your digital access. Joseph Spector, Albany Bureau Chief Published 6:00 a.m. ET April 26, 2018 CLOSE The New York State Museum is renovating a Papa Burger statue from an A&W restaurant in the 1960s. Curator Karen Quinn talked about the effort. Joseph Spector, Albany Bureau … [Read more...] about Papa Burger: How an iconic A&W statue in upstate New York was found and renovated

Sarah Palin's bus tour of patriotic sites rolls unexpectedly into New York Tuesday night for a night on the town with fellow presidential flirt Donald Trump. The dinner meeting of the 2012 GOP primary's two flashiest characters and savviest media manipulators - both reality TV stars - was guaranteed to cause a press frenzy and spark wild speculation about a Palin-Trump ticket. "The substance of the meeting is unknown," said Trump special counsel and top booster Michael Cohen. Asked if Trump were going to give Palin tips on getting her poll numbers up, Cohen said, "Not for nothing, I think Mr. Trump can teach a lot of these politicians a lot." He said Palin requested the meeting, saying she was coming through town on her "One Nation" bus trip to New Hampshire. "They are friends and have been talking for a while about getting together when the governor is in town," Cohen said. Trump invited Palin up to his apartment at Trump Tower and then plans to take her out to a Manhattan … [Read more...] about Sarah Palin, Donald Trump to meet for dinner in New York: Trump Tower followed by mystery restaurant

LAST IN A THREE-PART SERIES: The city of the future will have new faces, older faces, crowded subways, mega-development projects and maybe another Republican mayor in the wings.New York City entered the millennium a decade ago, the dot com bubble hadn't yet burst and the twin towers still dominated the skyline. The Knicks had just played in the NBA Finals and Mike Bloomberg was still only a well-known corporate titan. The notion of high-rise luxury condos on the Williamsburg waterfront or above the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel was almost laughable. There were roughly half a million fewer people living in the city at the time and about 10 million fewer tourists visiting each year. Where will New York be in another decade? A stroll down any New York sidewalk in 2020 reveals a city that has gotten grayer, greener and even more diverse than was the case ten years earlier. The skyline isn't fundamentally different, thanks to a housing slump that lasted well into the decade and … [Read more...] about The future of the city: Ring in the new New York in 2020

Sept. 10, 1931 - Charles (Lucky) Luciano takes over New York's mob with an orchestrated series of hits, culminating with the murder of boss Salvatore Maranzano. He forms what will become the five families of New York to be run by himself, Joe Bonanno, Joe Profaci, Gaetano (Tommy) Gagliano and Vincent Mangano. 1935 - Frank Costello, real name Francesco Castiglia, takes over after Luciano is jailed for running a prostitution ring and underboss Vito Genovese flees to Italy to escape murder charges. 1946 - Mob begins infiltrating unions on the waterfront in New Jersey and West Side of Manhattan. Costello teams up with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel to create Las Vegas. April 15, 1951 - Vincent Mangano disappears. Albert Anastasia – head of Murder Inc. — becomes boss. 1953 - Tommy Gagliano dies of natural causes, leaving his underboss, Thomas Luchese, as boss of what will be known for the rest of the century as the Luchese Family. 1955 - Genovese returns to the U.S. and … [Read more...] about Timeline of New York City’s Five Crime Families

It's easy to take the one you love for granted. Especially if the one you love is New York. In a city of workaholics, the chaotic commutes, high costs and tourists can sometimes fog the reasons you fell for this town in the first place. And then, out of the blue, you discover a cocktail, a path in the park, a block you've never been on, and you fall in love with the city all over again. Frequently, those moments happen on the job. We're talking about New ­Yorkers, after all. The Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge and Times Square are tourist favorites, but ask a professional New Yorker and you'll get a very different answer. If you want to know where to drink, relax or take in the view, don't even think about logging on. Ask a pro. Here are 10 local experts who have some tips on places that can reignite that old spark. And they're far from your typical tourist trap. REASON 1 Fort Totten, QueensMarc Sanchez, 26 Sanchez works year-round at the 55-acre park in Bayside. … [Read more...] about 10 reasons to love New York City, from the people who really know

Last week, www.Moviefone.com released its list of the "Top 25 Sexiest Movie Couples of All Time." No. 1 on the roster was Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger in 1986's food-and-fetish spectacle "9 1/2 Weeks." Also named were Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in "To Have and Have Not" and Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in "From Here to Eternity." The remaining 22 are all respectable, but the list got us thinking ... Besides Mickey and Kim, New York is represented by only a handful of other movie couples: Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in "The Way We Were"; Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin in "Sea of Love"; Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in "On the Waterfront," and Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez in "Unfaithful." But the city's onscreen love stories, like their real-life counterparts, come in all shapes, sizes and degrees of sexiness. Our standards are not necessarily Hollywood's. For instance, when George Clooney and Michelle Pfeiffer starred as New Yorkers falling for each other in … [Read more...] about Our critics flirt with a few of New York’s hottest film couples

It's hard to beat a fall Sunday if you're an NFL fan in New York. Whether you like the Giants or the Jets, your team is going to be on TV. Stock up on tortilla chips, soda and beer for a big afternoon. Appreciate it. If you grew up in the Boston area - especially in the '70s and '80s, when I did - Sunday mornings were filled with unpleasant uncertainty. The Patriots game was in the TV listings, but you just never knew. If the Pats didn't sell out Shaefer Stadium, the game would be blacked out to encourage ticket sales. You just never knew until you plopped yourself down in front of the tube. And if the Pats hadn't sold out? Instead you got the Giants. Sunday's Super Bowl XLII matchup between the Giants and Patriots can't spark the New York vs. Boston intensity seen in a Yankees-Red Sox postseason series. It lacks the history, the acrimony. But don't go thinking it isn't generating serious heat for a generation of New England fans. "When the Pats were horrible, we were … [Read more...] about We ahhh the champs: Accent’s on Boston in rivalry with New York

The New York debut of Ago restaurant in the newly opened Greenwich Hotel had the makings of a summer blockbuster. The famous West Hollywood flagship has long been a powerful magnet for celebrities and movie moguls, including film giants Robert De Niro and the Weinstein brothers, who are partners in the Ago empire. This Tribeca outpost is the fourth offshoot of chef-partner Agostino Sciandri's Italian eatery, following expansions in Las Vegas and Miami. The recruitment of Grayling Design - responsible for such iconic venues as Balthazar and Pastis - set high expectations for an impressive, Old World interior. Though the space is detailed with antique mirrors, vintage farmhouse chairs and terra cotta tiles imported from Tuscany, the sprawling setting fails to achieve the warmth or authenticity of an Italian trattoria. If you're seated in the rear dining room - worlds away from the buzz of the bar - you'll feel as though you've been exiled to Siberia. My qualms about the vast … [Read more...] about New York gets a half-baked replica of the original Ago

Have you heard? This is going to be a summer of love in New York City. As the temperatures rise, the five boroughs become a haven for hookups, makeout sessions and true romance. We rounded up 11 places to fall in love - be it forever or just for now. 1. For a fairy tale romance: The Cloisters An oasis in upper Manhattan, the Cloisters is the palace-like setting of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval architecture branch. Perched on a hill, this monastic castle will make you feel all Romeo and Juliet in the semisecret gardens - perfect for a stroll with a special someone more interested in you than in 12th-century stonework. Fort Tryon Park, (212) 923-3700, Metmuseum.org/cloisters. Tues.-Sun.: 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Closed Mon. (March-October) 2. For a cool place to get hot: An air-conditioned cinema to see "The Wackness" For a trip back to New York during the summer of 1994, writer-director Jonathan Levine's "The Wackness" gets nostalgic about youthful romance. The … [Read more...] about 11 hot spots for finding summer love in New York City

A month and a half after a federal judge struck down a local ordinance aimed at curtailing the rights of undocumented immigrants, tensions between the two sides of the issue persist in Hazleton, Pa. “The town was divided, and it is still divided,” said Amílcar Arroyo, 58, president of El Mensajero, a Spanish-language regional paper based in Hazleton, a blue-collar city of 22,000 people just 135 miles west of New York City. Hazleton, which has seen a substantial influx of Dominicans, Mexicans and other Latinos since 9/11, has become synonymous with the trend of immigration ordinances springing up in towns across the country. What’s ultimately at stake is whether local jurisdictions will find a way to legislate immigration policies. “People are happy about [the judge’s decision], but people don’t want to talk about it because they are still scared,” said Amado Batista, 49, owner of Prestigio Restaurant, which serves Dominican staples … [Read more...] about Is Hazleton debate sparking a new civil rights movement?